Riddle me on this one

[Alexander Short]

Never seem to have this problem when I echo '' > apache.log vs an rm. 


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----- Original Message -----
From: William Muriithi [mailto:william.muriithi at gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 12:52 PM
To: tlug at ss.org <tlug at ss.org>
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Riddle me on this one

Christopher and Ted
>
> I have seen this phenomenon when a file has been removed while a
> process is still writing to it.
>
> From the directory structure perspective, that file is no longer
> accessible, but it's still being written to.
>
> That could happen if you have:
> a) A process writing to the log file, then
> b) Another process (say, a log rotator) renames the file, and then
> unlinks it, while a) still has the file open.
>

Hmm, its really possible this is the problem.  I have cleaned up the
logs twice and have done so when the services were still running. Will
have to restart the service later and hopes this will fix it


Thanks again for the pointer

William
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